Chapter 380: Chapter 380: Teach’s Third Ability!
Chapter 380: Teach’s Third Ability!
After listening seriously to Zoro’s intel, Luffy widened his eyes and exclaimed:
"The Shit-Shit Fruit?! Hey, that guy is too disgusting!"
"No, I said the Corrode-Corrode Fruit."
"The Eat-Shit Fruit?"
"It’s Corrode... eh, forget it."
Zoro held his forehead and sighed. He didn’t expect that even with his teammates here, he would have to suffer both physical and mental torture.
"Anyway, his ability’s effect is just like I said. You guys just be careful not to get touched by that strange energy."
Reiner: "..."
Goddamn Eat-Shit Fruit. Now that Luffy’s said it, even looking at Teach makes me feel sick.
The ability to decompose and annihilate everything... it sounded amazing, and in fact, it really was. With one hand pulling and the other smashing, most ability users facing Teach alone would be in a near-certain-death situation.
But three-on-three was a different story. If someone was there to provide a distraction, it wasn’t hard to defuse his troublesome ability combination.
Reiner, Luffy, Sanji.
vs.
Teach, Teach, and Teach.
3v3. Perfect!!
"Black Leg Sanji...!"
Teach practically ground his teeth. His eyes stared fiercely at Sanji in the air, and black mist spread over his body, absorbing his injuries. At the same time, he endured the pain and raised his palm, releasing his dark gravity.
"Kurouzu!!"
"This is bad!"
A powerful gravitational pull suddenly acted on his body from a distance. Sanji’s eyes widened in shock. With no leverage, he had no way to resist, and his body flew uncontrollably towards the ground.
"Zehahaha! Your ship really has a lot of powerful ability users. Just in time!"
Teach grinned sinisterly, his eyes ferocious.
The Human-Human Fruit, Model: Necro-Lord, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit... the Flower-Flower Fruit...
The Straw Hat crew had so many powerful fruits that he didn’t even know which one to choose.
Although he had been injured quite a bit in the fight with Zoro, it had already been absorbed by the Dark-Dark Fruit. His stamina was completely fine. He was still in his peak state.
"The power of darkness that swallows everything and reduces it to nothing, and the power of corrosion that disintegrates any defense! With both of these abilities, I am the one who deserves to be called the strongest!!"
Teach laughed wildly, and a ball of flowing purple energy was attached. His right fist was clenched at his waist, ready to strike the figure being pulled over by ’Kurouzu’.
At the critical moment.
When he was still a dozen meters away from Teach, the calm Sanji finally managed to stabilize his body with his powerful core strength. His right leg, which was burning explosively, was layered with the power of vibration, and a whitish-hot light condensed at the tip of his foot as he kicked out.
"Kūshin: Hell Wind Leg!!" (Air Shock: Hell Wind Leg!!)
A scorching golden flame, wrapped in a vibrating shockwave, suddenly exploded with his forward thrust kick!
Sensing the terrifying energy contained within, Teach’s eyes were wary. He didn’t dare to be careless. His right fist, wreathed in corrosive energy and fully charged, fiercely punched out from a distance!
"Corrosive Bone-Piercing Heart!!"
A beam of purple energy spiraled out, tearing through the air and smashing straight into that scorching golden shockwave!
A violent explosion triggered a powerful wind pressure. Dust and smoke billowed and churned out, and the torrent of sand engulfed the countless buildings in the surroundings.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
In the pervading smoke and dust, Teach covered his face with his thick arm and coughed a few times, revealing a pair of fierce eyes as he warily looked around.
Suddenly, his heart tightened. A cold, teasing voice came from behind him!
"Yo. Long time no see, Teach..."
This voice is...!!
As if realizing something, Teach whipped his head around.
However, what came into view was not the face he had expected, but a pair of cold, merciless skull eye sockets.
A pure white skeleton, covered in ferocious bone spikes, stood behind him, wreathed in azure flames. Its bone fist, coiled with Haki, glowed with a deep, dark light, faintly emitting a heart-pounding black lightning!
"Wh-what the hell is this thing!!"
Teach’s eyes showed panic. In his fright, he staggered back two steps and almost fell on his bottom.
"You don’t recognize me? How disappointing, Teach. It’s fine, I’ll help you remember."
The skeleton face of Reiner revealed a terrifying smile. His fist was drawn back tightly, and a viscous, dark-red venom seeped from his bone arm, gathering on his fist to form a ferocious snake’s head.
"Hell Serpent!!"
Bang!!
The venom-covered fist quickly smashed into Teach’s chest. The red snake opened its fangs and bit fiercely into his rough flesh. The powerful force sent his entire person flying backward, crashing into a wall!
"Hiss, ah! Pain, pain, pain!"
"It hurts so much, you bastard! Waaah!!"
A highly corrosive poison began to spread. Teach wailed, fell to the ground, and rolled around. The flesh on his pale face twisted together, revealing his pain.
It was as if ten thousand ferocious ants were gnawing at his flesh and bones in his chest. The intense, unbearable pain made his hands go numb and tremble nonstop. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Magellan’s strongest crimson poison... once touched, it was like a maggot in the bone, difficult to get rid of.
It continuously eroded his flesh and blood until it spread throughout his entire body, accompanied by torture comparable to hell. It was the most suitable thing to use against Blackbeard’s body, which felt pain far more than an ordinary person’s.
But Teach’s willpower was also unusually fierce. Black mist emanated from the surface of his body and flowed towards his chest, absorbing the poison. He lay on the ground, struggling to raise his palm, and roared through gritted teeth:
"Kurouzu!!"
You really are a one-trick pony.
Reiner sneered in his heart.
As Teach’s palm swirled with black mist, an irresistible gravitational pull acted on Reiner from out of thin air. He did not resist, letting his feet leave the ground, his body flying uncontrollably towards the other.
Just as he was about to be caught, a corner of Reiner’s mouth lifted. Before Teach’s bewildered eyes, a bright, scorching light burst from his entire skeleton body.
"What!!"
Seeing the dazzling white light erupting from the skeleton’s body, Teach’s pupils trembled in shock. He clearly realized what was about to happen.
"100,000-Ton Calorie: Destruction Blast!!"
With an explosive roar, Reiner directly detonated his own body. A vast white light instantly filled the entire heaven and earth!
"Dark Cloak!!"
Teach hurriedly erupted with a large amount of black mist, which rapidly surged and swallowed his own body!
Rumble!!!
A terrifying explosive impact instantly spread out, and all the surrounding buildings were torn apart and pulverized.
The earth, along with all the people and things within a radius of several kilometers, was sent flying!
The entire sea area trembled as if the sky were falling and the earth were splitting. The explosion sent out a circular impact, which spread to the sea surface and pushed out a ring of seawater.
A giant mushroom cloud slowly rose above the island.
Smoke and gunpowder, mixed with high-temperature flames, rolled and billowed, like a black monster that wanted to swallow everything and destroy it.
"What’s going on?!"
"Wh-what is this power!"
"It’s just like the end of the world!"
On the outer edge of the island, which had been less affected, pirates looked up at the sky, their eyes filled with terror.
In the sky, a falcon struggled to maintain its balance under the influence of the wind pressure.
"Hey, hey, hey, starting with such a big move... don’t tell me that guy is thinking of sinking the entire island."
One is more reckless than the other.
On the falcon’s back, Zoro watched the destructive explosion below, and couldn’t help but sigh.
Swish~~
Bang!!
After the explosion, a charred black figure flew out of the lingering thick black smoke. It streaked across the sky in an arc and then smashed into a street covered in green plants.
Usopp and Van Augur, who were in a stalemate here, were interrupted by the sudden accident. They looked over at the same time, their eyes filled with doubt.
They saw in the deep pit smashed into the ground, a large, bloody, black fatty lying in it, almost unconscious.
"Blackbeard?!"
"Teach?!"
Seeing the other’s figure clearly, the two cried out in surprise at the same time.
"Hey, hey, hey! Are you kidding me? Why is this guy here! Don’t tell me he’s here specifically to kill me?"
Usopp took several panicked steps back against a house and hurriedly hid to the side.
An opponent of this level should be left to Luffy and Reiner. For the other to suddenly appear here... could it be...
"Ah—! No, no! How can I think like that, you bastard!"
Usopp hurriedly shook his head, throwing the bad thoughts out of his mind.
He slapped his cheeks hard with both palms and cautiously peeked out from behind the wall to observe the situation.
"Warp!!"
The surrounding ’ferocious’ plants began to attack the lying prey. Van Augur put away his sniper rifle, rested it on his shoulder, and decisively activated his ability, disappearing from the spot.
"To be injured so heavily..."
Arriving at the other’s side, Van Augur’s expression was grave. Teach was bleeding from his seven orifices and had almost fallen unconscious. He was only barely, instinctively, controlling the black mist to cover his body and absorb his injuries.
The explosion just now... if I’m not mistaken, only Reiner, with his endless methods, could have done it, Van Augur thought gravely.
He had, of course, long witnessed Teach’s strength. To think he would be beaten into such a state by the other... it was just as miserable as when they had run into Red-Hair.
"I’ll take you away first. Warp!"
Without thinking too much, Van Augur put his hand on Teach’s shoulder and used his ability again to teleport them away.
In the corner.
"The other’s situation doesn’t look good. Don’t tell me Luffy and the others have already defeated him?"
Seeing Teach’s condition clearly, the nervous Usopp’s body went limp. He finally let out a sigh of relief.
Thud.
Just then, three figures landed on the roof above him.
"—Oh! Usopp!"
Luffy landed with a cheerful laugh. He raised his hand and patted Usopp’s shoulder.
"Are you alright? You look pretty good."
"Of course! How could that guy be this great me’s opponent?"
Usopp raised a corner of his mouth, puffed out his chest, and proudly patted his biceps.
"By the way, Usopp. Did you see where Blackbeard and the others ran off to?"
"Them?~"
Usopp turned his head and looked towards the east coast. His expression was a little uncertain as he said to Luffy:
"If my senses just now weren’t mistaken, they should have teleported in that direction."
"Teleported? Does the other have that kind of ability? Don’t tell me they’ve run away."
Hearing these words, Sanji frowned.
Leaving a ticking time bomb like this, who was after their lives, on the sea was not a good thing.
Sanji complained and cursed at Reiner.
"It’s all your fault for making such a big move, you idiot! Now this is troublesome! You almost blew us all up too!"
"Well, it’s fine, isn’t it? I also didn’t expect the full-power detonation to be so strong."
Reiner shrugged and said.
The Bomb-Bomb Fruit was really wasted in Mr. 5’s hands. He still couldn’t figure out how he had used it to launch boogers.
Although, in his hands, the upper limit of this fruit was pretty much this. Because he was not the ability user himself, Reiner couldn’t perform in-depth development attached to the ability.
Its great power was only reliant on his stronger physical fitness. Otherwise, if he had developed a nuclear explosion that could undergo fission... he would have directly turned this island into a dead land just now.
"No. His ability doesn’t seem to be able to move that long of a distance. If he wants to leave this island, he still has to rely on a ship."
Just then, Usopp timely spoke up and reminded him.
"Is that so? Then let’s go."
Luffy nodded. The three looked at each other and immediately set off towards the east coast.
"Hey! Wait for me! Or else!"
Usopp shouted anxiously. Seeing that he probably couldn’t catch up to the three’s speed, he paused and then continued to shout:
"Then I won’t go! You guys go for it, Luffy!"
Before long.
Reiner and the other three quickly saw Van Augur, who was carrying Teach and fleeing, in a square in front of the coast.
Perhaps his stamina was almost exhausted, but the other had not used teleportation to create distance. Luffy’s eyes hardened angrily. He activated Gear Fourth and charged up at full speed.
"Don’t run, you bastard!!"
"You caught up so quickly? Damn it!"
Teach gritted his teeth and looked back, staring deadly at the three chasing him.
Van Augur’s teleportation had bought him some time. He had finally recovered a little from his injuries. But the thought of having suffered a loss at Reiner’s hands after just a few exchanges made his heart pound with fear, even as he was preparing to fight again.
Although the Dark-Dark Fruit could temporarily seal the other’s ability, it only worked if he directly touched the other.
However, Reiner, who possessed all sorts of undead, had too many methods. Teach already knew from their few exchanges just now that this was almost impossible.
"It’s not enough. Just two abilities is far from enough."
Teach’s face was grim as he said in a cold voice.
The Corrode-Corrode Fruit was enough for destructive power. Whether it was close combat, long-range, or even large-area moves, he had already developed them.
But to restrain the enemy... just relying on the Dark-Dark Fruit was probably not enough.
Or...
As he passed by a frozen street, Teach’s peripheral vision caught sight of a large ice pit in the distance. A figure lay motionless inside.
Although the third fruit slot, he already had a target for it. But now, surviving was more important than anything else. Not to mention, the other’s ability was not bad either.
"Take me over there!"
A corner of Teach’s mouth lifted into a cold smile. A sinister idea immediately welled up in his mind. He pointed at the ice pit and asked in a low voice.
"Although the distance is a bit far, can you do it?"
Following the direction he was pointing, Van Augur couldn’t help but frown:
"I know. It should be possible. I’ll try."
Replying in a flat tone, Van Augur intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Teach, his mood complicated.
When they had met Kuzan before, he had also thought Teach would make a move to take his ability. But in the end, the result had been beyond everyone’s expectations.
Teach had not only not made a move, but had even taken the initiative to invite the other to board his ship. Even more unexpectedly, Aokiji had actually agreed.
At first, everyone was wary. After all, they were facing a former Marine Admiral. Whether it was his strength or his status, they all had to be on guard against Kuzan.
But no one had defied Teach’s actions. On the contrary, later on, they had gotten along surprisingly well.
Although Kuzan did not approve of many of their actions, especially their attitude towards civilians, he had never had any conflicts with the others. It could even be said that they got along happily.
But Van Augur knew that this was just a superficial phenomenon. In fact, Kuzan had never fit in with them. Even he himself might not have realized this.
Is he finally going to make a move on him?
Swish.
Just before Luffy’s punched, Van Augur activated his ability again and, taking Teach, arrived in a street of icy blue.
"Zehahaha! As expected of a former Marine Admiral! This scene... no matter how many times I see it, it’s still shocking!"
The moment he landed, Teach looked around at the world of ice and snow and laughed wildly.
Thump.
At his side, Van Augur’s legs gave out. He half-knelt, panting heavily. After several long-distance teleports, his stamina was also almost at its limit.
"Hey, how are you? Can you still use your ability?"
Teach saw this and asked anxiously.
It was unclear if he was concerned about his condition, or concerned about whether he could use his ability to get them out of danger at a critical moment.
Van Augur raised his hand and clenched his fist, then shook his head:
"I’m afraid I won’t be able to use my teleportation ability for a short time. Shooting is fine. I’ll go and find a sniping position first."
Next, they could only hope that Teach could turn the tables after obtaining Kuzan’s ability. Van Augur stood up and prepared to leave.
Just then.
A cold laugh suddenly came from behind him, which made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
"In that case, then I can rest assured. Let me be the one to use the teleportation ability."
"!!!"
Hearing the voice, Van Augur’s face changed, and he whipped his head around.
"Kurouzu!!"
A ferocious red light flashed in Teach’s eyes. He had already aimed his palm at him, and a powerful gravitational pull was released!
Panic appeared in Van Augur’s eyes. His entire person flew uncontrollably towards the other’s hand.
"Wait, Teach! Admiral! No, why!!"
"Of course, it’s because this way, the chances of winning are higher! I can’t do it without Kuzan’s help, zehahaha!"
A corner of Teach’s mouth lifted into a sneer. He grabbed Van Augur’s throat with his left hand and smashed his right fist into his abdomen.
Bang!
"Puwaah—!"
Under the intense pain, Van Augur opened his mouth and spat out blood. His expression was pained, and his sniper rifle fell from his hand, clattering onto the ice surface.
Only then did Van Augur finally react.
Teach having him bring him here was not at all to take Kuzan’s Freeze-Freeze Fruit, but to exhaust the last of his stamina and prevent him from teleporting away when he attacked.
From the very beginning, Teach’s target was him!!
"This is also the arrangement of fate, Van Augur."
"Zehahaha!!"
A large amount of black mist immediately gushed from Teach’s palm. A deep darkness soon completely engulfed the other’s body!
(End of Chapter)
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